New

Perimeter

DLA Piper's global pro bono initiative

Kosovo - ADVANCING THE LEGAL SECTOR

Helping to Advance Women Lawyers

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In 2005, DLA Piper created New Perimeter to go beyond the firm's long tradition of domestic pro bono service and enable its lawyers to participate in pro bono projects of vital importance in the global community.
We invite you to learn more on this site.

New Perimeter is working with Fundación Pro Bono Colombia to help spread the concept of pro bono in Colombia and throughout the Americas. We also helped launch an initiative to raise awareness of the link between rainforests and climate change; and conducted a country-wide audit of intellectual property in agricultural products.

Since 2008, New Perimeter and Mexico Appleseed have taught about pro bono in Mexican law schools and nurtured a network of pro bono lawyers in the country. The organizations also investigated and published a report, Children at the Border: The Screening, Protection and Repatriation of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors.

Through the US Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), New Perimeter provided training to Georgian lawyers on international business transactions and international commercial disputes.

New Perimeter is assisting the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates to review and help revise Kosovo’s ethics and disciplinary rules and to provide training to Kosovar lawyers. We are also assisting with a strategic plan to increase the number of female lawyers in the country.

New Perimeter assisted the Namibia Paralegal Association in strengthening its capacity to spread access to justice throughout the country, taught legal advocacy to law students and supported the work of a Namibian nonprofit organization supporting women artists.

New Perimeter trained East African lawyers and law professors on negotiating and drafting international business transactions and partnered with CARE to increase access to financial services for rural women.

New Perimeter teaches a weeklong seminar on special economic zones as part of an LLM program at two universities. We also provided legal skills to the legal staff at the South African Human Rights Commission and we helped establish and support the Southern Africa Litigation Centre.

New Perimeter trained Tanzanian government lawyers on negotiations and international arbitration and taught legal drafting skills to law students. We also helped Tanzanian farmers generate carbon credits through afforestation and reforestation that can be sold as credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

New Perimeter partnered with Perseus Strategies and the Jacob Blaustein Institute (JBI) to conduct a broad rule of law needs assessment in Myanmar. We are also helping to introduce UNDP-funded clinical legal education in Myanmar and developing a curriculum for South East Asian law students on legal ethics, pro bono and access to justice.

New Perimeter is partnering with Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative, law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Government Solicitor to develop an interactive curriculum for South East Asian law students on legal ethics, pro bono and access to justice.

New Perimeter is partnering with Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative, law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Government Solicitor to develop an interactive curriculum for South East Asian law students on legal ethics, pro bono and access to justice.

New Perimeter is partnering with Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative, law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Government Solicitor to develop an interactive curriculum for South East Asian law students on legal ethics, pro bono and access to justice.

New Perimeter is partnering with Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative, law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Government Solicitor to develop an interactive curriculum for South East Asian law students on legal ethics, pro bono and access to justice.

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